Wildfires in Ohangwena
Ohangwena, Namibia: 10 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 11 constituencies since 2016, burning 35,802 hectares inside the region. The largest was Okongo in 10 September 2016, with 13,912 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 73).
Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 35,802ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 3.3%
- 10,760 km²
- fires
- 10
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 11
- Largest fire
- 13,912ha
- Okongo · 10 September 2016
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 22 Extreme 39° · 7 % · 32 km/h
- Fri 23 Very extreme 39° · 10 % · 53 km/h
- Sat 24 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 40 km/h
- Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 19 % · 65 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 25 % · 47 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 34° · 29 % · 35 km/h
- Wed 28 High 35° · 22 % · 38 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 32° · 37 % · 44 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Okongo 29,775 ha · 6.3 %
- Eenhana 3,364 ha · 3.0 %
- Omundaungilo 2,096 ha · 3.4 %
- Epembe 567 ha · 0.3 %
Largest recorded fires
- 13,912 haOkongo10 September 2016 · 12 days
- 8,227 haOkongoSeptember 2021 · 3 days
- 4,034 haOkongo15 September 2016 · 8 days
- 3,352 haEenhanaOctober 2017 · 6 days
- 2,605 haOkongoSeptember 2025 · 7 days
- 2,108 haEenhanaOctober 2020 · 4 days
- 932 haMpungu12 September 2021 · 8 days of 7,070 ha in total
- 567 haOkankolo27 October 2020 · 5 days of 2,328 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Ohangwena · 10
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,605 haOkongoSeptember 2025 · 7 days
- 11 haMpungu25 September 2021 · 4 days of 4,183 ha in total
- 8,227 haOkongoSeptember 2021 · 3 days
- 932 haMpungu12 September 2021 · 8 days of 7,070 ha in total
- 567 haOkankolo27 October 2020 · 5 days of 2,328 ha in total
- 2,108 haEenhanaOctober 2020 · 4 days
- 3,352 haEenhanaOctober 2017 · 6 days
- 54 haMpungu15 September 2016 · 4 days of 3,760 ha in total
- 4,034 haOkongo15 September 2016 · 8 days
- 13,912 haOkongo10 September 2016 · 12 days
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from OCHA COD-AB/Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) (Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).